For the past fortnight 16-year-old Flynn O'Malley has been waiting for a phone call to let him know a donor has been found — then he has just three hours to get to Melbourne for a double-lung transplant.

Despite an estimated 20 per cent of Australians suffering from debilitating chronic pain, a leading expert in pain management says it remains the largest unrecognised condition of all the chronic diseases.

Not long after her 30th birthday Gail McMillan began to notice that her eyesight was diminishing and, although unknown to her at the time, she was developing Fuch's Corneal Dystrophy and slowly going blind.

A Congolese-Belgian woman becomes the first in the world to give birth to a healthy child after doctors restore her fertility by transplanting ovarian tissue that was removed and frozen when she was a child.